Just how weather proof is the D3s?

  • Thread starter Thread starter gingerweasel
  • Start date Start date
G

gingerweasel

Guest
Just saw a newspaper tog stood outside a house waiting for armed police to do their thing. It's pouring down and he's been stood there for time. Both him and his kit as dripping wet.

From what I saw he had a D3s and a Nikkor 70-200, a backup D700 with a smaller prime or standard zoom.


Gutted I didn't have a camera to hand.
 
Can't say about a D3s but I have had both my old D200 and my present D300 with a 70-200 vr lens attached in similar conditions and bot survived
 
My D3 needed a new Focusing CPU after a shower caught me out, sealed unit my arse. It cost me £600 to repair!
 
I've had my D3 and several lenses drenched by the rain on many an occasion, all with no ill effects
 
DeanPhoto said:
My D3 needed a new Focusing CPU after a shower caught me out, sealed unit my arse. It cost me £600 to repair!
Click to expand...

Unlucky: I've used D3 and before that D2x in appalling conditions with no dramas other than during one particularly violent thunderstorm there was so much water in the viewfinder eyepeice that I couldn't really see what i was doing - thank God for AF...

I dropped two D2x bodies into a river I was standing in - a quick wipe with a few hankies and they were fine.

No dramas with D3 bodies yet either...
 
No issues here with my D100 & 300mm f/4 AF-S during very wet n' windy Florida hurrican seasons, nor with the D200, D300s & 70-200mm f/2.8VR during our lovely british weather.

But have a watch of this..

[youtube]zi0Lru4JfSo[/youtube]
 
That's it?

I was expecting something dramatic.
"That needs to pay a visit to Nye-Konn, I guess..."

Borrox!
Shoe-Goo...10 minutes...sorted...

Poofy American softies...
 
Kaouthia said:
No issues here with my D100 & 300mm f/4 AF-S during very wet n' windy Florida hurrican seasons, nor with the D200, D300s & 70-200mm f/2.8VR during our lovely british weather.

But have a watch of this..

[youtube]zi0Lru4JfSo[/youtube]
Click to expand...


Tune in next time for their new video, "HELP -I stepped in a puddle and now my shoes are wet"
 
I've used Nikon for years and never had a problem with them getting wet and thats going back to old film cameras.
 
I got my D90 wet during a downpour a few days ago, it also survived getting covered in diesel and it still rocks on :thumbs:
 
Recently I used my D3 with a 70-200 mk1 I stood in the pouring rain for 2 hours,No rain cover and it was perfect except the next when i went to use it the lens had steamed up inside and so had my D3. So i couldnt use them for a full day.
Thats my only real experience in proper rain.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top